Portraits by Aliza Brown

Indianapolis-based photographer Aliza Brown is one to watch. Her dreamy portraits seamlessly connect the raw emotion and beauty of her many subjects; oftentimes offering multiple images of the same subject to provide a spectrum of emotion a single image can’t encapsulate. 

1972 Rothschild Surrealist Dinner Party, Pt 1

There have been few dinners parties quite like it.

It’s December 12 1972, the night at which Marie-Hélène de Rothschild held her famous Surrealist Ball at Ferrières. As you can probably guess by her surname, she was a member of the ultra-wealthy Rothschild banking family. Few made the guest-list but if you did, it was the ultimate seal of approval from Parisian high-society.

SYNCHRONISM

[noun]

1. coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.

2. the arrangement or treatment of synchronous things or events in conjunction, as in a history.

3. a tabular arrangement of historical events or personages, grouped according to their dates.

4. Physics, Electricity: the state of being synchronous.

5. Psychoanalysis: the simultaneous occurrence of causally unrelated events and the belief that the simultaneity has meaning beyond mere coincidence.

Etymology: from Late Latin synchronus, “simultaneous”.